Meanings
adjectiveclear-winged (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyHaving transparent wings, or wing with transparent patches.
1 more example
The large and handsome spectre butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty anything the butterfly world can produce.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 199
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